York AWS User Group: Tuesday 18th April 2023

Tuesday 18th April 2023;
Aviva, Wellington Row, York, YO90 1WR;
City centre, a short walk from York railway station.

Join us for our next face-to-face meetup: learn and chat about all-things AWS, and meet other cloud practitioners in the area.

First up, we have Richard Rowntree from Aviva who will talk about sustainability and AWS.

Our second talk is by Alex McLeman from AWS, who will talk about event-driven architectures and serverless.

18:00: Doors open - turn up, meet people, grab a drink
18:00 - 18:30: Pizza arrives, more time for people to turn up
18:30 - 19:10: Talk 1: 'Sustainability & AWS’ - Richard Rowntree, Aviva
19:10 - 19:20: Break
19:20 - 20:00: Talk 2: ‘Building next-gen applications with Event Driven Architecture’ - Alex McLeman, AWS
20:00 onwards: post-meetup drinks in The Judge's Lodging, at 9 Lendal

=
Talk 1: Sustainability & AWS
Speaker: Richard Rowntree, Senior Cloud Architect at Aviva

Environmental sustainability & AWS. This will also cover Aviva’s Journey to cloud and how Aviva is tackling sustainability issues.

=
Talk 2: (Serverless) Building next-gen applications with Event Driven Architecture
Speaker: Alex McLeman, Solutions Architect at AWS

Event-driven architectures can solve many difficult problems in modern workloads. It can be challenging to work with large amounts of data in different data stores and locations. Teams building microservices architecture often find that integration with other applications and external services can make their workloads more monolithic and tightly coupled. Learn how to use event-based architecture to decouple and decentralise application components. Services covered: Lambda, Eventbridge, DynamoDB. Will also include a short customer case study(Dunelm) and a 5 minute demo.

=

Food and drink

Food will be in the form of pizza - please let us know if you have any specific dietary requirements prior to the day and we will endeavour to meet your needs. We’ll also be providing a range of drinks.

A huge thanks to our sponsors, xDesign and Cloudsoft, and to Aviva for hosting.

Code of conduct

Like a large number of other communities, we have an anti harassment policy and code of conduct (https://www.meetup.com/York-Amazon-Web-Services-User-Group/pages/32649582/Code_of_Conduct/), in order to support the inclusive nature of our events. It is necessary for all attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at any AWS Leeds to agree with the code of conduct.

Helping with diversity and inclusivity

The organising team for AWS York are keen to promote diversity and inclusivity, in terms of speakers, how events are run, and the composition of the organising team. If you would like to contribute to this aim, particularly if you think you have experiences that you might not consider to be typical for the majority of the tech community, we would be really excited to talk with you at the event.